Forget Charlie Sheen....look at some of these Mike Tyson quotes.

"I just want to conquer people and their souls."

"I'm just a dark guy from a den of iniquity. A dark shadowy figure from the bowels of iniquity. I wish I could be Mike who gets an endorsement deal. But you can't make a lie and a truth go together. This country wasn't built on moral fiber. This country was built on rape, slavery, murder, degradation and affiliation with crime."

On a visit to the Zoo: "I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin. When we got to the gorilla cage there was 1 big silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let smash that silverback's snotbox! He declined."

"I'm coming for you man. My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah!"

"I want to rip out his heart and feed it to him [Lennox Lewis]. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children."

On his childhood: "One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like a infantile retard."

"There are nine million people who see me in the ring and hate my guts. Most of them are white. That's okay. Just spell my name right."

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Sheer brilliance. Now, if only we could get the two of them in the ring!

Thank you for posting this. I think Mike Tyson says some of the most profound, incredible, intelligent, ruthless things I have ever heard. His first bio-doc was unrelenting and riveting. This man has a frightening, yet fascinating world view that could only have been honed in America. And Mike is an American, 100%, although there are many who would just rather not think of him in those terms!

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Tyson has sort of an idiot savant thing going on but over all I see these people as self congratulating fools who began to believe their own press.

I can't see any difference between Charlie Sheen and Anna Nicole making her clown video. There is a danger in acting that eventually if you go over the edge in your profession you begin ACTING like a clown.

That's cool. People think they are uber-tough and all that. That's cool by me.

Too bad a 5yr old with a gun can take them out with the mere use of 1 finger.

Oh well. So much for the tough guy bs.

What do you expect out of a guy who has been punched in the head more times than anyone could count...